Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ville Platte, LA 70586. It is one of 45 churches in Ville Platte, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ville Platte, LA, 70586Shares a ministry location with Disciples Baptist Church.
Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 55.1% (37.2–73.1%)
- Obesity: 52.8%
- Food Insecurity: 45.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 37.4% (24.8–50.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.5%
- Diabetes: 24.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 15.1% (7.4–22.7%)
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (6.3–18.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- Disciples Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Lilly of the Valley Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Refuge Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Living Word Catherdal PBGA — 0.5 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ninth Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ninth Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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